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Learning assessments give valuable feedback to learners and provide a solid indication to instructors about who is learning what, what's working, and what isn't. In this course, instructional design expert John-Paul Ballard shows you how to create effective assessments. Learn how to establish assessment goals, write questions, create a fair test environment, and construct a rubric.

- We are a world obsessed with assessments, evaluations,and constant positioning and comparison among peers.Most employees have an annual performance review,which is to say, they're graded.In school, there's a never ending queue of quizzes,exams, papers, and presentations.Test, grades, assessments, love them or hate themthey're ubiquitous, so let's make the best of use of them,that is they should always inform us of our progress.Hi, my name is John-Paul Ballard and I've been designinginstruction with technology for about 15 years.

Through my experience, I've acquired a skillsetthat specializes in finding and leveraging technologythat works well in the education market.I'm also an expert on creating assessments.In this course, I'm going to show you how to createmore effective learning assessments,ones that can give valuable feedback to learners,as well as provide solid metrics for you to understandwho is learning what, and what's working,and what isn't.So, let's get started.

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11/21/2016

From the report cards we get in kindergarten to our college midterms, assessments are an inescapable part of student life; however, not all learning assessments are created equal. The best ones give valuable feedback to learners and provide a solid indication to instructors about who is learning what, what's working, and what isn't. In this course, John-Paul Ballard—an instructional design expert who specializes in leveraging technology for the education market—shows you how to create such assessments. To begin, John-Paul provides you with an overview, explaining the three sides of learning assessments, referencing Bloom's taxonomy and Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Evaluation. Next, learn about the different assessment formats—for example, online exams, classroom-written exams, and observational assessments—and how to choose the best format for your assessment. He also covers how to make your assessment realistic and your test environment fair. Last, he explains how to plan and design your exam and shows you, by example, how to create a rubric.